An Emperor among laptops

Darius Chang | Apr 20, 2006

With a monster of an LCD, the Eurocom M590K Emperor is truly royalty when it comes to displaying its performance. The first thing you'll notice is the larger-than-life 19-inch widescreen, which dwarfs almost every notebook there is except for the Dell XPS Mobile Concept and Samsung M70. However, it is what's under the hood which should arouse the senses of gamers everywhere.

Following the idea that if one is good and two is better, the M590K has dual top-of-the line Nvidia GeForce Go 7800 GTX cards linked by SLI (Scalable Link Interface). Combined with the speedy 2.21GHz AMD Turion 64 processor, 2GB RAM and 100GB SATA harddisk, this portable (and I am using this term very loosely) breaks the speed limit for games. Initial tests show a marked increase over its nearest competitor, the Dell XPS M1710, for Doom 3 and FEAR.

The SysMark 2004 performance results, however, are slightly below par for a high-end system as the benchmark does not rely on the graphics processor. But as a gaming machine, the Eurocom M590K Emperor is highly recommended not only for its raw video-rendering power--but carrying it constantly may even give gamers the physique to dispel their nerdy image. Click for larger image